“The First Great Depression was not as bad as today”
You are factually incorrect.
Look families raised their children for thousands of years without needing preschool. It is only since the late 1960s that the US has decided that preschool is somehow good for children. Try reading something like Why Johnny Can’t Read. I don’t know if you are feeling guilty or what but the ‘failing to find a job’ is nonsense. I had to return to work recently. I had to change my resume. I had to hit the streets. I had to go to places and ask if they were hiring. AND most importantly I had to take a job outside of my field.
This is what people used to do. It is only when you have 99 weeks of unemployment that people feel entitled.
Do some serious reading about the 1920s and 1930s in this country and learn a thing or two.
“The First Great Depression was not as bad as today”
>You are factually incorrect.
You’re as wrong about that as you are about the existence of “plots” of jobs. I’d advise that you at least open the drapes and have a peek through the picture window.
“Look families raised their children for thousands of years without needing preschool.”
I think you have become confused as to who is who. I have never argued that preschools are a good thing; only that they are a necessary evil for people who are so far out of your social circle that you don’t even suspect their existence.
“but the ‘failing to find a job’ is nonsense”
Sometimes one just has to gaze in amazement. Christian scientists declining medical care, muzzies with four wives, this...You’d better pull your head out and see what’s going on.
“I had to return to work recently.”
So, uh, something just occurred to me: are you a woman?
“I had to change my resume.”
There are tens of millions of people in America who have *never* had a resume, because they would never apply for a job that requires one. This, according to you, is because they are bad people who feel entitled.
“I had to hit the streets. I had to go to places and ask if they were hiring. AND most importantly I had to take a job outside of my field.”
Unless something happens to pull us out of this depression, the day will come when all of that will net you nothing but heartache.
“This is what people used to do.”
Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we? ‘Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano’.
My word, try—just try—to comprehend that there are people who have done all those things for freaking *years* without even a nibble. And not just a few losers. Once again, tens of millions of people.
The America you seem to be living in no longer exists in mankind’s shared reality.
“It is only when you have 99 weeks of unemployment that people feel entitled.”
99 weeks, eh? So why do people who have been out of work for almost a decade feel entitled?
“Do some serious reading about the 1920s and 1930s in this country and learn a thing or two.”
I know quite a lot about those two decades. A lot of it I got from people who lived through it.
But why bother? You’re not even living through *this* decade.
I’m checking out of this futile conversation. I hope reality won’t be too brutal when it comes knocking at your door.